russian lawmakers repealed permission to deploy troops to crane in a move to support peace efforts we get reaction from the president of the parliamentary assam leave the council of europe. libyans are voting for a new parliament but few are expected to turn out during the worst security crisis in years and public apathy towards the embattled government and. what half

a million bits of space junk orbiting earth at lightning speed we talk to the man who thinks he can save our satellites from almost certain destruction and make big bucks in the process. it is five and mosque you're watching our national i'm marina joshie welcome to the program russia's parliament has revoked the resolution to allow the use of troops in ukraine and follows a request by president putin as moscow moves further in its efforts to deescalate the crisis gripping ukraine's east were in english to reports. mandate was implemented the beginning of march on the eve of the referendum in crimea and russian officials were extremely concerned about the fate of russian nationals

living on the peninsula particularly about the security of russian military contingent who are stationed out i'm at a navy base there of course now the president puts in on tuesday has sent a letter to federation council the upper chamber off russian parliament asking them to repeal this mandate in order to start this debilitation process in ukraine russian president has been on a visit to the u.n. where it be off to the president has also supported the russian president on his calls for civilization in the southeast. also russian president was calling on ukrainian authorities to extend this cease fire that is currently in place there it is supposed to last until the twenty seventh of june but it's because it is said that perhaps it should be extended in order to give all sides of the conflict time to lay down arms and come to lucian off the conflict and that suggestion has been supported by. a number of ukrainian refugees in russia is now thought to

be more than sixteen thousand many of those who lost their homes during commutes military operation in the east which left some areas cut off from electricity and water across the border in russia the refugees are sheltering in dozens of camps which have been set off by local authorities and volunteers as sporadic gunfire back home makes the ceasefire even more fragile ukrainians who decided to stay back fear they too will eventually be forced out as representatives of forty one high commissioner for refugees told us the people fleeing to russia are in safe hands. one of the meetings i encountered a group of refugees would still be to. go to city. international but when he or get to why did you decide to go out and start again i don't know what is happening in ukraine. axes discomfited it has and what kind of ice is meant to what kind of is that they provide a stone that one day and. this occasion the guy is very good at it the government

is taking care of them but when they close the board they never do it again as the way and those who have it did they go to see that and it gives and those who don't have their jobs that try to go to a government organized tent which is run by the minister over many can see and to be honest this is one of them was to equip in the way that in a vision how to manage god rafi and investigation. will stay with us as we continue to follow developments in ukraine on air and online. rightly to see. first strike. and i think that you're. on our reporters. in. the in the.

libyans are choosing a new parliament amid the worst violence in the country since the revolution three years ago turnout is expected to be low with less than a third of the population even registered to vote since robert khadafi was toppled the libyan leadership's revolving door has seen heads of state come and go who average chosen this time around will be the country's six leader in two years but the government still holds little sway over large parts of the country where a breakaway militias are running rampant and there are also fears of a military coup after a rogue general garner popular support and fighting the militants here's our policy or it was a time when david cameron and his and eyes paraded the libyan revolution as one who wished to democracy i think brett you shouldn't you will come. ridge well we are proud of the role that we played to out we know this was your revolution from your bravery

a time when tony blair's handshake with colonel gadhafi was conveniently forgotten and maybe now the british prime minister in my twenty fifth get that the libyan democratic project did not turn out quite as planned the method libya is. op and violence state. political stability nation our internal security for its people always out security in its borders the point of entry election is underway but the hand of the rule seems very far away two months ago parliament was overrun by gunmen jihadists militias and gangsters have taken over the streets as the climate of fear intensifies a growing number of libyans look to general belief or have tar as they say via his supporters see him as the only man capable of crushing radical armed groups and building a national army the us excel has promised to rid the country of foreign fighters

and with strong links to egypt's new president washington considers him a cia asset but not content with meddling from the far the united states has sparked outrage by seizing a libyan citizen from benghazi but i think that america came in and kidnapped a person we might have different opinions about him but of this is the lead and citizen no matter who prays they can mean and keep someone from going gazi them but america's saying nothing america is not responsible for what happened in libya nor is it responsible for what's happening in iraq today wisdom powers were quick to praise themselves for they were initially if it's in libya and just as fast to disavow all responsibility in being gone see the bombed out ruins from general have ties lost offensive still smoldering libyans office straighted but feel powerless. even with voting slips in the hand the last time they had a revolution they didn't want to know so well. meanwhile human rights watch has

warned of dire abuse in libya a report based on interviews with detainees highlights widespread torture and the country's jails let's get now more on this from the author of the probe gerry simpson. mr sisson thank you so much for joining us here at international was your reports mainly focuses on abuse of prisoners and asylum seekers but tell us a bit more about its findings what we interviewed one hundred thirty eight people in eight of libya's nineteen official migrant detention centers they are migrants and asylum seekers asylum seekers who have been denied access to asylum procedures but who wish to lodge refugee claims and ninety two of these people told us that in the previous months the guards in these centers tortured in other ways to be abused them they spoke of being whipped with cables burned with cigarettes kicked in their heads suspended from trees with their feet and torsos whipped over prolonged

periods of time women was searched by male guards in the shooting intimate cavity searches and in eight of the nine centers we visited the conditions were appalling in amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment with sometimes hundreds of people crammed into a space meant for just a few but why did these violations occur i mean what are they down to in your opinion it's very hard to say what the motivation is of the guards in each and every center different militia who have been integrated into the libyan interior ministry run different centers some guards take bribes to release people and so it could well be that their violence is motivated by which to put pressure on the people to pay money to leave the sentence in other cases they don't take any bribes and they just detain people for months and in times over a year in that case it could be that the abuses are simply fuelled by what seems to be widespread alcohol abuse drug abuse by the guards and it could also be down to basic racism which is prevalent in libya what concerns us the most is that these

detention centers don't seem to have any purpose even even if people are deported from the centers into neighboring countries they were evolver right back in libya's borders wide open and so. it's very unclear what purpose these centers was you sad to you sound you cannot see no purpose in having them but the e.u. has committed twelve million viewers over the next four years simpering the situation with attention centers how effective do you think that would be where we are concerned that these centers with very little official purpose in these serious abuses continue to receive assistance from the e.u. without the e.u. and italy for that matter which also assists the centers in putting pressure on the authorities to end these terrible uses and that's why we've called on the authorities to agree to an independent mechanism to be manned by the un the un refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. on the un mission in libya and smil to independently verify and to these abuses and

that only if that happens age should continue secondly even if the abuses and there should be a road map there should be in agreement on how your funds from the e.u. are committed to help raise the standards in the centers to meet minimum international norms and we've said that if by the end of this year those standards of not being met you should suspend aid to also. well year ago e.u. border assistance mission was established in libya and how much is it helping to improve the conditions of migrants and asylum seekers the e.u. border assistance mission is not engaged in the centers themselves they help libya so they say to secure their external borders that includes assistance technical assistance and some training to the coast guard the libyan coast guard is

intercepting and rescuing. the vessels carrying thousands of migrants of asylum seekers towards the you and those that are intercepted and rescued if they're not allowed to bribe their way out of custody on the docks are taken to the centers where they're abused and so it's something the e.u. has to think about very carefully the fact is that the libyan coast guard is helping bring people from the eye and from the libyan territorial waters into these abusive detention centers all the more reason why the e.u. should do what it can to make sure these abuses and jerry simpson author of human rights watch report on the i think is so much for talking us here in r.t. . thank you. now your rocky army airstrikes early on wednesday reportedly killed at least thirty two people in the strategically important town of baiji that's where government forces are trying to stand off militant attacks on the country's largest oil refinery the islamist group isis had earlier claimed it had captured the facility then ras has already led to a fuel crisis in the some parts of the country washington is reluctant to send in

troops but more than one hundred u.s. military advisers are offering assistance british m.p. jeremy corbett thinks it's western meddling that's driven iraq to the edge of. the growth of the arse's forces is a direct result of the overthrow of the entire system around saddam hussein and then the promotion of what has actually turned out to be very sectarian government in iraq ever since then and also the huge amounts of money that we have available to the isis forces so we have what is developing into a very well funded civil war by controlling the oil resources or most of the resources of iraq from the isis forces the present hour at least the biggest refinery and that has caused panic buying and chaos in the rest of iraq but it also cuts off a huge element of financial support for the government of iraq and the long term instability of the country is very much in doubt because you now have two

broad be really just sectarian forces fighting each other that was never the narrative in iraq before the. united states and britain and others invaded it was then a rather severe. secular country in the sense that the constitution was relatively secular the outlook is very very grim indeed and this is a consequence of western meddling. while the question of whether to help or not pass sprung up again on capitol hill just months after washington decided to revive its financial support for egypt some in khan. gris wanted scrapped learn why on our website. plus lose strikes again the euro why is powerhouse player has been caught biding a rival players this time sinking his teeth into an italian during their world cup clash guess how the internet's reacting check out r.t. dot com for more. i realize game of space invaders is being played

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looking. welcome back he was an r.c. international other are many ways to wage a war a boots on the ground air strikes drones and by playing toy soldiers usually either reserve of kids this last way was used by the u.s. and its war on terror as or not now explains the toy market is a lucrative industry generating a reported eighty four billion dollars in global revenue and it makes sense everywhere around the world boys generally make kids happy except when the cia gets involved according to the washington post the spy agency concocted a plan in two thousand and five to develop osama bin ladin demon dolls aimed at scaring children and their parents the goal is to instill fear in families that

would cause them to turn away from the real terrorists the twelve inch figurines world painted with a huge dissolving material designed to peel off and reveal a red faced demon like creature with pure c. and the black facial markings the code name for the project was devil eyes the plan was to distribute the toys to changer in afghanistan and pakistan where the cia was trying to win hearts and minds the cia claims only three prototypes were developed before the project was canceled however a source tells the washington post that hundreds of bin ladin demon action figures were developed and set to karate into the cia did not move forward with the covert operation one of the creepy demon figures reportedly remains the agency's headquarters reporting from washington d.c. marina point r t a middle east analyst saying so there are better ways of fighting

terrorism than by scaring children with toys. psychological war or fear is. a weapon in the struggle in modern day war but it's not the only. factor that defines these kinds of. measures that the usually the secret service or intelligence community takes in fighting terrorism however since these action figure those were directed to children to try to prevent. them is double or moderate or what peter preserves and i believe maybe a different approach like investing in education of these children would yield much higher results. greenpeace can also turn red in the face the

organization campaigns for less air travel to cut down carbon emissions but a greenpeace executive has flown from luxembourg to amsterdam and back on a daily basis at the charity's expense since two thousand and twelve well let's forget the cost and take a look at what effect his travels have had on the environment a commute amounts to over seven tons of carbon dioxide emissions that's equivalent to three tons of recycled waste or one household annually tricity consumption ryan holiday wrote a book about greenpeace policies he believes often their words don't match their actions most observers are probably it's hypocritical as especially when you hear executives defending it as as a compromise between you know the needs of a business and impacting the environment which is basically exactly would agree others not to do but i assume that what people are upset about is greenpeace is very public about. their decisions and their you know sort of environmental.

it in private or behind closed doors is sort of doing whatever the person we feel is best or personally that if it's there and that's where you see charges that obviously of ok piracy you know greenpeace because it has a know it will be shared or because they have a noble mission they are somehow. you know above the rules work and do whatever they think is right and that kind of relativity creates the problems like we're talking about now. now to go to some of the stories from around the world for bombs went off in the dipshit capital during morning rush hour at least five people were injured the blast occurred inside metro stations causing widespread panic homemade explosive devices were used in the attack this is the first bombing in cairo since last month's presidential election. israeli forces arrested seventeen policy is overnight us part of the ongoing crackdown on the west bank meanwhile in gaza

the air force bombed seven targets at least two people were wounded in the attack the region has seen an increase in violence teenagers one missing in the west bank hundreds of palestinians were arrested as part of the search operation. spanish court has upheld charges against princess cristina the sister of spain's new king is accused of tax fraud and money laundering her husband allegedly embezzled millions of euros in public contracts with u.s. business partner if she goes to trial the princess could face up to eleven years in prison the ruling comes less than a week after the six to the struck. there have long been grumbling fears in britain of a tide of immigrants from romania and bulgaria after employment restrictions were lifted earlier this year it's estimated fifty thousand people a year it could make the cross continent trip and it's not all one way traffic or pissed off explains why

a sizeable number of brits are being drawn east. michael is. british but spent most of his life outside the u.k. his father worked in the military and the family's done its fair share of globetrotting but it's in romania where mike decided to settle down and open a board he's been running for five years now i like the opportunity salad my life and my test still the nightlife and i like to party and it's one of the reasons why i went into this business i love the people of the climates the kind of chance you know and the median seem more than welcoming since the beginning of this year they have been able to travel and work all over the e.u. some british deputies worried immigrants could start flooding in even suggested running a scare campaign to put them off coming to the u.k. there are many and dress saw the letter side of the situation and started campaigning for british citizens to move here and work instead since romania is accession to the e.u. one thousand and seven brits no longer have to register when they move here so it's

hard to say the exact number of them living here but according to the british embassy it's somewhere between three and four thousand and some have even made a business out of helping other newcomers to get started in this country like jean edgar another british ex-pat who left the u.k. eight years ago after his eighty company went bankrupt he makes a living here by helping other ex-pats register firms find staff by property and offers other help of foreign businessmen may need when setting up shop rumania has a long long way to go before it could be perceived as let's say a western european type country but for a guy like myself yes i would recommend anyone to come here romania is far from the wealthiest of the e.u. states in fact with the average salary of less than four hundred euros per month it's one of the poorest to the surprise of many word of a mass exodus of romanians to the rest of the e.u. this country has actually given thousands of westerners opportunities they couldn't find at home you got this going on r t book arrest. america's making

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myths that he created exist to this day. eucharist google's propaganda was posing actually trying to denigrate other nations while at the same time raising ordinary german so students would. keep its complete use of go bill snooze precisely what the masses needed to hear in order to make them follow him he was like the great paper from the fairy tale that made grants fall to the tune the despite. the myths created by the chief nazi ideologist bound for tal soil in the west we have to fight these myths today in memory of those who won in the second world war. over there i marinated this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that

we're tracking for you today. first up u.s. prosecutors have reached a settlement over fraud claims add b.n.p. perry bar that will see the french firm temporarily banned from trading in u.s. dollars i repeat banned from trading in us dollars i mean this is a pretty big deal and we'll look into its implications on the global banking system then call in roses on the program today colin is sitting down with me to discuss the u.s. economy are we finally thawing out after a brutally origin start to the year will discuss coming right up and in today's big deal edward harrison and i are talking about the current conflict in iraq and the potentially imperiled the oil markets he won't want to miss a moment get to it.